Use your words, Eleanor.

Sampling is transformative fair use and does not require permission. So sayeth the Supreme Court.

RIGHT??? “What is black? What are parents? How do we even know we’re awake? That life is not an illusion? To be? Or not to be? To eat the cookies and the pie? To sleep, to die, to cry? To type, too ripe?” Fucking incoherent lying sack of lies.

To me, if she wanted to have dreads or curl her hair so it looks natural, fine. But she so clearly didn’t just immerse herself in black culture or fashion. She was conning her friends and coworkers, and must have had to work hard to maintain the lies. As a white, African American studies professor she could play all…

Because by all accounts they don’t seem “loving.” It sounds like they were weirdly religious and that she was raised in somewhat of a cult-like atmosphere. Also, her brother is being accused and prosecuted for sexual abuse of a minor (one of her other brothers) and her parents seem to be blaming her for it. So they…

Oh yeah, totally. Race isn't biology, great. But it still exists, and you can still belong, or not belong, to a given race, so there's no reason she can't answer that question. If you didn't think race was real, or had concrete affects on people living in the US, why on earth would you join the NAACP?

And her doing this totally discredits the legitimate use of theory to understand identity. She’s endangering the progress made in getting people to recognize gender as fluid and sexuality as more than mutually exclusive checkboxes. She is fucking it up for lots of people.

I hate non-proffesional internet diagnoses as much as the next person. (Maybe more!) Particularly if they are used to hand-wave away shitty behavior. But....I’m going to break my own rule. It seems like more information is coming out about her parents and childhood abuse, all the time. So it doesn’t seem entirely out…

Hey, I didn’t get a birth certificate until 7 years after I was born! Maybe I should start wearing bronzer and wigs and pretending to have hate crimes committed against me, too!

Dolezal was first asked if she had ever straight-up lied to someone about her race. She replied, “No, because never have I been asked, ‘are you human or are you not human?’ Race as a construct has a fluid understanding. So I would say no.”

People seem to be focusing on demonizing the almonds, when if the land dedicated to cows was converted to nut groves, the water usage would still go down considerably.

How is it that California has never required the farmers to switch to greenhouses and drought-friendly plasticulture?* And switching to crops that are less water-intensive? They grow RICE in California, for fuck’s sake! And alfalfa — which is then shipped to CHINA! Not to mention that cows, especially dairy cows, are…

I wouldn’t feel bad about the produce - it’s the beef industry that really needs to leave California. You can graze cattle anywhere and they take something like 40% of all the water in the state. Mostly growing alfalfa to feed them, but still. If California just focused on produce and nuts, which we can grow better…

Coming soon — limp ponytail.

This story is a black hole of What Is Going On?

Agreed, very poor performance. What MIGHT have been an OK original troll post was then taken off the rails by the follow-ups, which were a little *too* polished.

Wait...is “stinky pussy” a real stereotype about white people? Or any race? I have never heard that one.

Yes, thank you. I do want her to face consequences, but I’m not interested in seeing her completely destroyed or able to profit from her ruse.

I’m genuinely worried about both possible extremes: that either this woman becomes a fucked-up poster child for identity politics, with a column in the New York Times and a bestselling memoir, or she ends her life with two handfuls of pills and a bottle of bourbon. Both would be fucking dreadful.